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16606473 No.16606473 [Reply] [Original]

De Maistre if he was a Protestant.

>> No.16606490

>>16606473
I guess that sort of is the case. What are we to do with this information

>> No.16607149

>>16606473
That's true, in a way. What's the purpose of this message?

>> No.16607341

>De Maistre if he was an *nglo nigger
I guess so.

>> No.16607557

>>16606473
Carlyle is inferior to de Maistre for the simple fact that if he was truly well read on a plethora of topics then he would have realized the superiority of Catholicism and converted. Catholicism has 1,500 years worth of heavy-hitting theological masterminds, Protestantism have never produced a single theological giant.

>> No.16607572

>>16607341
That's Celtic warrior to you, a valet-hearted coward.

>> No.16607645

>>16606473
Truthfully, no. De Maistre's far more direct, polished, polemical, political, definite, and overtly autocratic--although he is as grudgingly sentimental. There's neither the surreal nor the cartoonish in his writing either as there certainly is in Carlyle, especially in works like Sartor Resartus and French Rev.
Otherwise I kind of get what you mean; they do have a similar palpable stylistic energy or liveliness.

>> No.16607665

>>16607645
I think OP means that they were the biggest reactionary political writers of their generations and countries and their influence extended heavily into literature in general. Apart from that they're both very polemical and verbose as well.

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16607879

>>16607557
>Protestantism have never produced a single theological giant.

Jonathan Edwards is the protestant giant.
John Calvin is also a giant.
John Owen is also exceptional.

>> No.16607890

>>16607557
>>16607879
Hegel and the German Idealists in general are high Protestant theology.

>> No.16607903

>>16607879
>>16607557
imo, not a protestant, but I have to at least give kudos for their austerity. At least historically. In their practice, aesthetic, and mindset.

There is something about comming across a plain white new england church. There is something of honesty in it.

>> No.16607968

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5F02TZU9F_c

>> No.16608004

>>16607879
Puritans were cool